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Imec is the world-leading research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies. The combination of our widely acclaimed leadership in microchip technology and profound software and ICT expertise is what makes us unique. By leveraging our world-class infrastructure and local and global ecosystem of partners across a multitude of industries, we create groundbreaking innovation in application domains such as healthcare, smart cities and mobility, logistics and manufacturing, and energy. Imec is headquartered in Leuven, Belgium and also has distributed R&D groups at a number of Flemish universities, in the Netherlands, Taiwan, USA, China, and offices in India and Japan.
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2009
2 Nov 2009
Terepac partnership on low-cost flexible electronics packaging
Terepac Corporation and IMEC announced their collaboration on novel packaging technologies for flexible electronics.16 Jul 2009
Body area networking standard attracts industry attention
The recent IEEE 802.15.6 Working Group meeting in Montreal, Canada drew significant interest from major industry players including Philips, General Electric, Texas Instruments, Toumaz and Samsung.13 Jul 2009
Energy harvesting at Holst Research Centre part one
Holst Research Centre in the Netherlands, now owned by IMEC, has achieved an enviable record in energy harvesting development in only three years.8 Jul 2009
Joint research on roll-to-roll organic photovoltaics
ECN, the largest research centre in The Netherlands in the field of energy, and Holst Centre, an open-innovation initiative by TNO (The Netherlands) and IMEC (Belgium), signed an agreement to offer a joint research program on Roll-to-Roll organic photovoltaics (OPV) to the industry.4 Jun 2009
Energy Harvesting & Storage Europe, Cambridge, UK
Now in its second day, the IDTechEx Energy Harvesting and Storage conference in Cambridge, UK, has 150 attendees discovering the latest in harvesting and storage technologies and the applications that drive such innovation.3 Jun 2009
Overview and challenges for energy harvesters using micro-system technology
Holst Centre/IMEC, Netherlands
24 Apr 2009
Personal health monitoring systems
An application of micro-power harvesting is wearable health monitoring systems such as blood pressure monitoring systems, EEG and ECG.23 Apr 2009
IMEC demonstrate 128 bit organic RFID transponder
Holst Centre - founded by the Belgian nanoelectronics research center IMEC and the Dutch research center TNO presented a 128 bit organic RFID transponder chip with Manchester encoding and anti-collision protocol.25 Mar 2009
Novaled and Holst Centre to cooperate on organic electronics
Novaled AG announces that it will work together with Holst Centre on Organic Thin Film Transistors (OTFT) using the Novaled PIN OLED® technology and materials.2008
31 Dec 2008
World's first UHF plastic diode
The world's first plastic diode operating in the Ultra-high frequency (UHF) band has been developed by IMEC (Belgium) and TNO (The Netherlands).3 Dec 2008
German government to invest in organic photovoltaic research
The German government is investing EUR 2.5 million in a project that will significantly increase the lifespan of organic solar cells (OSC) with the goal of yielding competitive organic photovoltaics (OPV) for potential commercial use.3 Jul 2008
Researchers developing printed electronics for creating RFID tags
European researchers have taken a major step towards the goal of developing printable electronics that can be used for creating radio frequency identification tags and flexible watch displays.18 Jun 2008
The OLLA project delivers its final milestone
At the end of the project period, the OLLA project consortium presents its final milestone: the basic technology for a white OLED (Organic Light-Emitting Diode) light source, with an efficacy of 50.7 lumens per watt at an initial brightness of 1.000 cd/m² based on the Novaled PIN OLED technology. The OLLA project is a joint basic research consortium, headed by Philips Lighting.30 Apr 2008
How to print OLEDs
OLEDs have huge market potential including 10% of the replacement market for light meaning 70 square kilometers per year.11 Feb 2008
Holst Centre Netherlands - breakthrough in organic RFID
2007
25 Sep 2007
Improved Smart Blisterpacks Announced
At the IDTechEx conference, RFID Europe in Cambridge, UK, 18-19 September, both Cypak of Sweden and Jos Geboers of The Compliers Group of the Netherlands announced improved smart blisterpacks that record which pills are removed when and have RFID for identifying the patient.20 Jul 2007
Silicon Chips in Trouble
In the world of printed electronics, it is all too often presumed that silicon chips are the ideal, a form of perfection that other technologies cannot match, let alone overtake. However, it has recently become clear that silicon is encountering very serious problems.2005
8 Sep 2005
Printed organic rectifier for RFID labels
